We call on you sisters and brothers from all over the world who oppose the MinuteMen Project and in the name of the 3,500 women, men and children who have died crossing into "The Land of Liberty" since 1994 to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a Virtual Sit-In on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.

Washington Post: Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.) said the group should change its rules immediately. He said the Gold Star Mothers' decision smacks of xenophobia and is in contrast to what Anthony Lagman fought and died for.

A past president of the mothers group, Dorothy Oxendine of Farmingdale, Long Island, said: "There's no discrimination in a national cemetery. There's no discrimination when they get killed side by side. So how can we discriminate against a mother?" Oxendine, the former president, said she is sure the general membership would approve a rules change if the board did.

The wedding is the latest in a chain of BART interventions
thrown by a loosely organized group of East Bay artists and
activists united under the tongue-in-cheek moniker of the
Passenger Liberation Front. The happenings belong to the
same art-as-activism family as Reclaim the Streets, which
stops traffic for street parties, or the Situationists, a
group of 1960s artists and activists who sought to alter
people's perceptions of the modern city. The NYC Club Kids,
who held dance parties in subways and fast-food chains in
the late 1980s, may also have inspired a prior Passenger
Liberation Front event, an '80s dance party held in March.
BART police, who made an arrest and confiscated boom boxes,
stopped that event short. But the transit takeovers are
generally playful, and today's mock marriage could hardly be
considered rowdy.

Yesterday was the dedication of the new coastal access to the beach in front of David Geffen’s house in Malibu....Coastal access areas are the walkways which dot the California coastline and allow ordinary folk who don’t own beachfront property entry ways to the beachfront. If you frequent Malibu and like the un-crowded conditions of the few (and often times very hidden) public access beach fronts, you know it can get highly charged between the beach front home-owners and people who visit the beach for a day in the surf.

While blogsurfing I came across an opinion that the format of the blog influenced the posting itself. I can’t remember where I saw it, but I have to agree. These two blogs seem to require different types of posts and are defining themselves. They sort of tell me what to do, rather than the other way around. It’s interesting, but probably not terribly consequential. Still, some things seem to fit on both of them. Hence the category that discloses that I’m reblogging myself.

A kitchen, shower room and wardrobe space have been squeezed into the 62 square foot area on the third floor of the block in Notting Hill, west London.

The property was converted in 1980 by a businessman who used the flat while he was staying in London.

BOSTON - John "Sam" Sapiel gets an uneasy feeling when he crosses Boston city limits, where the full-blooded Penobscot Indian is technically a persona non grata. An archaic law has forbidden American Indians from setting foot in the city since 1675, when settlers were at war with area tribes. Although the law hasn't been enforced for centuries, the fact that it still exists is a lingering source of anger for American Indians.

Did I mention Chewbacca? Did I mention that maddening commercial where Chewbacca is in the booth recording sounds for the new series of "Star Wars" cell phone ring tones and oh my freaking God let's just imagine that for a moment, the pale little sexually denuded dude sitting next to you in the café who gets a call on his Nokia and when it rings it sounds like that weird famous Chewbacca howl, and you turn and look at him and wonder what he might look like if he exploded into a million bloody little geek-boy pieces like, right now.

The 1,750-square-foot home is a modular, environmentally sustainable two-bedroom, two-bath dwelling. The signature feature is the Breezeroom at the center of the house. This glass-enclosed space sits under a butterfly-shaped roof which allows air to pass and circulate through the entire house. There are also indoor gardens, and movable glass walls which open the Breezehouse for easy indoor-outdoor living.

RandomFreshBlog is [a] version of the weblogs.com version of NextBlog!... using the blo.gs changes.xml file rather than the weblogs.com version, since blo.gs's file is a superset of weblogs.com's.

• BritishLions.com: An "independent fan site [that] will bring you all the news, controversy, views and stories leading up to, and during the Lions 2005 New Zealand Tour.
• Lions-tour.com: "Lions news, information, travel, opinion...."
• allblacks.com/lions/: "The official homepage of the Lions tour to New Zealand"
• LionsRugby.com: "Official website of the British & Irish Lions"
• 2005Lions.net: Comprehensive independent fan site.
• PlanetRugby.com: British Lions pages.
• BBC Sport: British Lions on the Rugby Union pages.

In a sign of good will George Lucas offered to send some kind of a freaking battalion of Storm Troopers over to the line to escort the waiters over to the Arclight for the opening. Like a nerd parade. He wasn't even going to charge them or require them to hold up NetFlix logos. And... they said no. They said he could take his escort and shove it. How totally un-fan-like. The thing is, I think some of the linesters wanted the escort, in fact it was their wet dream, but the other nerds killed it for them. Right now the nerds are divided into three groups. Lets look at those.

1. Nerds who are going to Arclight. We'll call these guys the smart ones since everyone knows Arclight is quite possibly the best theater ever built. These are the people who really want to see the movie the best way it can possibly be seen. This is not an opinion, it's documented fact. So step off.
2. Nerds who are going to the Vista. We'll call these the guys the grumpy ones. These are the ones who are blaming Arclight for Grauman's not showing Episode III....
3. And finally, and these are really the standouts here - the nerds who are not leaving and will be picketing or something in front of of the Chinese to make sure everyone knows how angry and nerdy they are.... That is from their protest site.

What's going to happen when you call the 'phone booth next week? BloggingLA has offered full coverage of this proof that you can't put more than two humans in one place without politics leading to war. Here's their recap.

The Premini-II has a 1.3 megapixel camera. Battery life is up about 45%, too. Perhaps the most obvious change is the upgrade to a full 240x320 (QVGA) 262k color display with a 1.9" diagonal measurement, which replaces the old 65k color 128x160 unit. This display is really beautiful. Just as with the original So505i that Sony Ericsson made years ago, the display looks almost like a piece of paper - it simply doesn't look real.

The Premini-II only has about 4MB of user available internal memory for storing photos and sound files, but it does have a shiny new Memory Stick Pro Duo slot, something the older models lacked. With that, you can add up to 512MB of extra storage to the Premini-II, which should be more than enough to deal with its 1.3 megapixel camera and the associated photos.

The next stage in the genre may be not so much to invent a culture but to reflect reality, which is what I think the best science fiction does," says David Eick, executive producer of Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica series. "You're doing a story that has a resonance in the contemporary culture that is vital and immediate. You're basically telling metaphorical stories."

Other sci-fi creators may choose to explore new scientific and technical frontiers. While the first Star Wars was essentially a Western adventure film transported into space, the new sci-fi films need to fulfill the Star Trek promise of boldly going where no man has gone before.

Recent films may provide clues to the future. Created on a shoestring budget by newcomer Shane Carruth, Primer is the story of four friends who accidentally discover a time machine. But the 2004 film focuses not on time travel itself, but its repercussions. What happens, it asks, if you go back in time and meet yourself? Can reality be altered?

Antennas and radio equipment are being installed 605 feet up at the top of the Space Needle and in four other spots around the city. It'll beam wireless Internet signals over a 5-mile square mile area of Seattle.

Traditional Architects and Urbanists Collaborative is a charter group of dedicated individuals who seek to apply the principles of New Urbanism along with time-honored traditional architecture to redefine the way everyone interacts with the world.

In February, [New York] City Councilwoman Gail Brewer floated the idea of making movie theaters list the times movies actually started, versus having people sit through the countless commercials before them. Now, Loews Theaters will be printing when movies really start, sorta: The NY Times says movie listings, ads, and web listings will still have the time when movies+trailers+commercials start, but a note will say "the feature presentation starts 10 to 15 minutes after the posted show time."

The microprocessor-based device completely hides whatever off-limits games applications you’re running, so when a co-worker or manager walks by your cubicle, all it takes is the flick of a switch under your desk to throw up that boring old annual report or Excel spreadsheet.

What is Neutrino?

A Neutrino feed is a collection of pointers to other syndication feeds - say, a blog, Flickr and Del.icio.us - all of which belong to one individual. It's essentially indirection for feeds - point someone at your Neutrino feed and they can then discover your blog feed, your Flickr feed, your Del.icio.us feed, and anything else you care to include which you publish and can be syndicated.

Motivation
Many services emit an RSS feed of some kind. People are authoring increasingly many disparate feeds for different reasons. Examples include weblogs (both personal and shared) , bookmarks in Del.icio.us and digital photographs through services like Flickr.com.

There is, at present, no straightforward way to acquire all of a person's feeds from one source. An individual may provide links on a web page to all their feeds, but subscribing to all of these and organising them in an aggregator becomes an increasingly annoying task.

A resident of San Clemente recently went through the drive-in window at a Burger King in Laguna Niguel and actually dialed 911(!) because she was having major troubles getting her Western Bacon BBQ burger order filled correctly!